7/6: Sisler, Cortez win relay No. 3

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Sisler, Cortez win relay No. 3

Westminster High School senior Jake Sisler and junior Juan Cortez partnered to win the third summer cross country relay series Thursday, July 6 at Liberty High School in Eldersburg.

Sisler and Cortz each ran two legs of 2,000 meters in a combined 29 minutes, 57 seconds. South Carroll senior C.J. Naper teamed up with Liberty coach Bobby Ward for second place (30:55).

Mike Meadows and Patrick Dougherty, both runners for Liberty’s cross country team, finished third in 32:23.

Kristen O’Brien and Katie Griffin, part of the Flying Feet summer training program, placed fourth overall out of 14 teams and first among females in 37:25.

The next race in the series is 7 p.m. July 20, also at Liberty. Each runner will complete two legs of 1,000 meters each.

Results
Male
1. Jake Sisler and Juan Cortez, 29:57
2. C.J. Naper and Robert Ward, 30:55
3. Mike Meadows and Patrick Dougherty, 32:23
4. Tom Carpenter and Paul Griffin, 37:42
5. Sean Dougherty and Dan Kelsh, 38:15
6. Miguel Rodriguez and Eric Dougherty, 38:27

Female
1. Kristen O'Brien and Katie Griffin, 37:25
2. Ellen Hocheder (63) and Mary Maloff (51), 57:13

Co-ed
1. Kristen Harrison (16) and Buck Harrison (56), 40:41
2. Doug Ripley (38) and Jessie Hansen (17), 41:45
3. Amber Slater (14) and kris Rodriguez (14), 43:55
4. Becky Linville (15) and Matt Kerzel (14), 44:33
5. Lynn Dodge (45) and Andy Dodge (44) 47:00

For more information, contact Doug Renner at 410-857-2581.

[CoachCortezFSK]

i have a question, i noticed that there were a lot of pictures taken during the race. If you want some how do you? are you gonna put them on the web or order them? just wondering -cortez

[CoachSpongeBob]

That was Kevin Spradlin taking the pictures. He writes for the Advocate. I would assume one of those pictures will end up in their next edition, but he will correct me if i'm wrong.

Kevin - any way we can get a hold of any of those pictures? Probably unlikely, but I would love to put them on the website!

By the way, CJ ran awesome. He led off, handed off to me in 1st. My only defense is I am out of shape (about 6 miles so far this month), but I handed off to him a good 40 seconds behind. He caught everybody and gave me a good 40 second lead. Jake still toasted me. But hey, that was my first run since my bad blisters from deciding to run on the beach barefoot. Not smart for a diabetic. But at least I kept those Liberty boys behind me at the finish!

[CoachCortezFSK]

Hey coach ward so if today is the last day of registration and there are 32 runners out of 36 possible attendants of the running retreat that means i'm going right?- o and yesterday before i ran i ate 4 slices of pizza :/ not smart haha and i had a huge blister on my right foot from pounding many miles

[scdistance]

Your feet must have been killing you guys. I know I hate it when I get blisters from running (usually caused by running in wet socks). They hurt so bad.

CoachSpongeBob thanks for the praise on the race. I was hoping to win but I guess you can't win them all. Anyways I wouldn't be to hard on yourself, you ran well. And like you said you did keep Meadows and Dougherty from passing you.

[Two Point Swing]

no see thats not fair if meadows had been paired with a decent partner he wouldve blown coach bob away. unfortunately, i have a steady regimen of running once a month so far, continually forget to take my asthma medication, and ate way too much indian food an hour before running. not only that, but i ran stupid.

while i agree that coach bob put me away, meadows ran on another level compared to myself



PS - i did pass you coach, but i ran too stupid to hold it there

[scdistance]

No one was trying to say you guys ran poorly, just that CoachSpongeBob ran well.

[Two Point Swing]

i understand...but i personally did run very poorly

[sizzlinsizzler]

haha, i dont mean to be a jerk but, I WIN!

i wonder how many more times that'll happen this year....ha

[CoachSpongeBob]

I think you mean you Won

[sizzlinsizzler]

i "Wined", i can pronounceate how ever i wanna. i em frum ceral county

[CoachCortezFSK]

jake?......

[scdistance]

*cough* excuse me sisler, but i believe that under my name it says "State Champion" HA, i wined.

[urbanlegend]

no i'm gonna win

[CoachCortezFSK]

woho this next relay should be good then sc v.s whs